 GENERAL: — I received, at a late hour, your note of today. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition.  General Lee - Page 390by Fitzhugh Lee - 1894 - 433 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 452 pages
...pressed, he replied the same evening in the following disingenuous and diplomatic terms : " GENERAL,—I received, at a late hour, your note of to-day. In...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do. not think the emergency arisen to .call for the surrender of this army; but as the... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...column, and about midnight received the following communication from General Lee: — April 8, 1865. GENERAL: I received at a late hour your note of to-day....surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, but to nsk the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...Lee, whose anxiety "to be frank" seemed to move him to a disingenuousness foreign to his nature : — "GENERAL: — I received, at a late hour, your note...surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to usk tho terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 796 pages
...Meade's colnim, and about midnight received the following communication from General Lee : Aprfl 8, US. " GENERAL : I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did nut intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...supplies. Grant joins Meade at noon of the 8th, and receives the following letter : • APRIL 8, 1865. GENERAL — I. received, at a late hour, your note of to-day. In mine of yesteroay, I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...servant, U. 8. GRANT, laeutenantrGencral, Commanding Armiee of the United Stet»•. April S, 1S65. General : I received, at a late hour, your note of to-day in answer to mine of yesterday. I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia,... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...midnight received the following communication from General Lee : — " April 8.1866. " GENEBAL : — I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To bo frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army , hut, as... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Fiction - 1869 - 536 pages
...state the terms. Grant had stated them on this 8th of April, and Lee had replied at once that he " did not intend to propose the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of General Grant's proposition. To be frank," he had added, "I do not think the emergency has arisen to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 876 pages
...Armiet of tin United States : GENERAL : — I received at a late hour vour note of today, in answer to mine of yesterday. I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Vir§inia, but to ask the terms of your'proposition. To e frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...Lieutenant-General Commanding Armies of the United States. GENERAL LEE TO GENERAL GRANT. April 8, 1365. GENERAL : — I received at a late hour your note of to-day in answer to mine of yesterday. ginia, bnt to ask the terms of roar proposition. To be frank, I do not... | |
| |
